James Bird

Male18 May 1811–20 April 1896

Brief Life History of James

When James Bird was born on 18 May 1811, in Sheringham, Norfolk, England, his father, William Bird, was 24 and his mother, Mary Hagon, was 33. He married Margaret Montgomery about 1840, in Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 20 April 1896, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Bird
1811–1896
Esther Martha Mallet
1842–1872
Marriage: 25 April 1856
Thomas Bird
1857–1903
Esther Jane Bird
1858–1938
James Mallet Bird
1860–
Charles Mallet Bird
1861–1932
Walter Mallet Bird
1863–1864
Robert Mallet Bird
1864–1881
Joseph Montgomery Bird
1866–1927
Louisa Mallet Bird
1867–1939
Alice Bird
1870–1870
Lewis Bird
1870–1870

Sources (87)

  • James Bird, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • James Bird, "United States Census, 1860"
  • James Bird in entry for Finly G. Brooks and Esther Price, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    25 April 1856Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

    • Children (10)

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    World Events (8)

    1812

    Age 1

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1812 · War of 1812

    Age 1

    Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.

    1836 · Remember the Alamo

    Age 25

    Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

    Name Meaning

    English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.

    Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).

    Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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